Excepting/accepting the South: New geographies of Latino migration, new directions in Latino studies

Latino Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 220-245

  Winders, Jamie ^a   Smith, Barbara Ellen ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

flexible labor; Latino migration; new immigrant destinations; race; transnationalism; US South

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861711559     PISSN: 14763435     EISSN: 14763443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/lst.2012.17     Document Type: Article

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